Biology:Waterstonella
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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans
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Order: | Waterstonellidea Schram, 1981
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Family: | Waterstonellidae Schram, 1979
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Genus: | Waterstonella Schram, 1979
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Species: | W. grantonensis
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Waterstonella grantonensis |
Waterstonella grantonensis is a species of fossil crustacean so distinct from other crustaceans that it has been placed in its own genus, Waterstonella, family, Waterstonellidae, and order, Waterstonellidea.[1] It is named after Charles Waterstone, keeper of geology at the Royal Scottish Museum,[2] while the specific epithet commemorates the location where the fossil was found, the Granton shrimp beds, near Edinburgh.[3]
References
- ↑ Patrick J. Orr & Derek E. G. Briggs (1999). Exceptionally preserved conchostracans and other crustaceans from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland. Special papers in palaeontology. 62. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-901702-68-5.
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- ↑ E. N. K. Clarkson (1985). "Carboniferous crustaceans". Geology Today 1 (1): 11–15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.1985.tb00277.x.
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